In the alley next door, there is a second courtyard with a shop, which was bought by the Ming family the year before last, and the family who rented their shop to open a grocery store did not rent the second courtyard behind the house in order to save money.

It just so happened that the Ming family occasionally needed enough room to entertain guests, and the house in the next alley was very close to the house they were living in now, so the Ming family had been leaving the second courtyard empty for hospitality later.

This time, there were as many as twelve stewards and men sent by Boss Luo, and all of them were big men, such a team of people, whether it was the Ming family or the Yu family, was obviously not suitable, so the Li steward who was the leader didn't want to live in either of the Ming Yu family from the beginning.

He originally planned to take his subordinates to the guest house after giving the New Year's gift, but he clearly insisted on arranging them in the small courtyard of the second entrance in the alley next door.

In that courtyard, the main room, the wing room, and the inverted seat room were added together, and there were as many as eight rooms that could accommodate people, which was completely capable of living in their team of twelve.

As for the four carts they brought and the big animals pulling the carts, any Zhuangzi of the Ming family and the Yu family could be properly accommodated.

Taking advantage of their coming to Yu's house to give New Year's gifts, Ming Xu quickly sent his subordinates to the second courtyard in the alley next door to clean up, heat the kang, lay the bedding, prepare hot water, make tea, and set up snacks and fruits, and then arranged for the cook at home to prepare wine and food for these people.

When they came out of Yu's house, Mr. Lin accompanied them to the second courtyard in the alley next door.

"Time is in a hurry, if there is something we haven't thought of, Steward Li can just give orders." Mr. Lin has now been promoted from the bookkeeper of the Ming family to the chief butler of the Ming family, and it is more appropriate for him to personally entertain Steward Li than the master of the Ming family or the Yu family.

As he spoke, he beckoned to the two rough envoys, two clever maids, and two middle-aged ladies who took care of the guests in this house, "You guys serve the guests well, and the hot soup and fruits and snacks must be prepared at all times, and if the guests have other needs, you will immediately go to the main house to find me." ”

The six subordinates should say yes.

Steward Li thanked Mr. Lin, and then asked him to convey his thanks to the masters of the Ming family on his behalf.

Mr. Lin exchanged a few words of greetings with him, and then called his mother-in-law and the maid to come in with a meal.

Steward Li did not refuse, they came all the way from northern Hebei to Fuxing County, saying that there was absolutely no adulteration at all, so he was undoubtedly more willing to drink some hot soup and eat hot rice than to greet people politely.

The two servants who came in first carried into a large wooden barrel, which was a warm soup stewed with mutton, wolfberry, ginger, pepper, pepper, coriander, and carrots until they were ripe.

The two mothers-in-law behind them carried two three-layer food boxes, and there were a total of 12 dishes in the food boxes, which were stewed tofu with pork and sauerkraut vermicelli, stewed mushrooms with chicken, stewed eggplant with river fish, stewed dried beans with pork ribs, salted duck, braised rabbit, braised elbow, pork slant, sweet and sour fish balls, dried tofu with sharp peppers, sugar lotus root with honey, and three fresh.

While the mother-in-law was putting the dishes on the table, the servants brought in clean dishes, chopsticks and spoons from outside.

Then while the servants were serving the soup, the mother-in-law brought in two small jars of white wine, a large pot of white rice, a large pot of white flour steamed buns, a large pot of corn noodles, and a large pot of potato cakes.

Steward Li is okay, the size is also a steward, following Boss Luo over the years, there is no less food and drink in his stomach, and other ordinary guys who follow Steward Li to Fuxing County to deliver New Year's goods do not have the determination of Steward Li.

As the mother-in-law served the food, Steward Li soon heard the sound of his subordinates snorting.

His face was a little dark, and he was thinking about whether to throw a few eye knives to warn him, but out of the corner of his eye, he had already caught a glimpse of the two mothers-in-law of the Ming family, not only did not show a look of disdain or disdain, but also smiled kindly at those stinky boys.

It turned out that the two mothers-in-law picked by Mr. Lin were not only honest and down-to-earth, but also all of them were from poor families.

Therefore, the greedy faces of the young men not only did not arouse their disgust, but also made them secretly rub within the scope of the master's permission, and prepared more delicious food for these "children" the next morning.

What are the local specialties of Fuxing County, what modern drinks and snacks learned by the cook and Mingyue at home, what dried apricots and dried wild fruits dried in autumn, and all kinds of nuts picked and recovered from the nearby mountains...

The treatment was so good that those young men were reluctant to leave Fuxing County with Steward Li.

After listening to Mr. Lin talk about these interesting little things that happened in the alley next door, Ming Xu immediately decided to give these young men and their leader Steward Li some local specialties in addition to the silver reward.

As for the special dim sum made by the chef of the Ming family and Mingyuexue, Ming Xu also asked the cook at home to make a few boxes for Boss Luo - it makes no sense that the housekeeper and the buddies of his family have already eaten it, but their Ming family does not give him a copy as the master to show their gratitude.

After Mingyue heard Yu Jiayan say this, she also decided to take the winter solstice and them to make a few special snacks for Boss Luo.

In order to avoid being the same as the Ming family, Mingyue used her brain to try to recall the novelty snacks that she had not made in this era, and finally she decided to spend more time and effort to make the color pastries that she had learned with great difficulty in her previous life.

She chose lotus crisp, begonia crisp, chrysanthemum crisp, peach blossom crisp, orchid crisp, lily crisp, these six good-looking and delicious flower color pastries, with the help of the winter solstice and vanilla, she spent a whole day to make a batch of six different varieties of flower color pastries.

Beating her back, thighs and arms, which were rarely sore, Mingyue instructed Dong Solstice and Vanilla, who were almost tired from her, "Stay on the winter solstice, put all the snacks in the box, and Vanilla and I will cook together." ”

The winter solstice responded, and quickly began to put those colorful pastries into the dim sum box on the board, and Mingyue began to prepare dinner with vanilla.

Like lunch, their dinner is also in the category of large and affordable and easy to obtain.

Mingyue took enough cornmeal noodles for all the masters and subordinates in the family to the kitchen, and then took a few eggs, a handful of mushrooms, a bowl of sauce, a sauerkraut tree, and a piece of pork belly to make toppings.

When the herbs boiled the water in the pot and put the noodles into the pot, Mingyue had already prepared a pot of egg and mushroom sauce and a pot of pork and sauerkraut marinade.